(rants and observations on outsider culture, music & cinema in The Big Wet)

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Police Beat co-author reads in Vancouver (with Liz, too!)

Charles Mudede, who co-authored the fascinating film Police Beat, which played at this year's VIFF, will be reading on Friday night in Vancouver alongside my friend Elizabeth Bachinsky. The event is described thus:

Recently, west coast writers, artists and architects have been thinkingabout how basic notions of space could be redefined. In a 2002 Artspeakpublication, Diana George and Charles Mudede approached serial space, an endlessrepetition of particular spaces that appear throughout our conventions of³urban" or "nature." Serial space proposes a shift in the way we think aboutspace, away from conventional dichotomies such as city/country, urban/suburban.How can notions of space be redefined along the lines of serialized space -endlessly repeating spaces - rather than by spatial dichotomies? How does spaceform critical discourse and what are the implications of those formations, ifany? Artspeak¹s Speakeasy series of talks and readings encourage writers andartists to continue this thinking.

It all sounds a bit spacy to me (sorry) but should be an interesting event...!

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Writer, aging punk, cinephile. Fan of the obscure and outside. ESL teacher, occasional used bookstore guy; zombie when the mood strikes me. Haven't been based in Vancouver for awhile now but "Alienated In The Metrotown Area" is an even worse blogname than I already have. And I still have ties to Maple Ridge (sigh).